Death by cake.

The director of the company after all had no choice, even though he was a bit worried about letting a wild tigress like Vanessa roam wild in his company but for the sake of his life and his kids, he decided to take a decision against his consciousness and accepted the deal that Derren proposed to him.

Once Derren left the secretary of the director finally raised his head and somewhat fearfully asked, "Will that be alright? What if she hurt anyone in the company?"

As he wiped the sweat off his forehead, the director let go of the breath that he was holding and recovered the lost inches around his waist and grounded out. " What else do you think I can do? Hand my head to that devil? Didn't you see that gun in his hand? It was loaded if I said one wrong thing, I would have been killed and you would be too!"

What the director didn't know was that though Derren was carrying a gun that was loaded, the safety was on and he had no intention of shooting anyone. Even the reason that the gun was loaded was that Derren was often attacked and that's why he had to carry a loaded gun in case he needed to defend himself.

On the other hand, Derren was full of smugness as he walked out of the company. " Did you see that? Matters like these can be solved without pulling the trigger of the gun. I am so glad that the matter was resolved so peacefully and the director was ever so polite as well, don't you think that I did a good job, huh, Nolan?"

Nolan who knew that the only reason the director agreed was that Derren pulled out the gun from his back pocket, bowed his head and like a competent assistant answered. " You are right, boss."

Neither Derren nor the director had any that they had a beautiful understanding that wouldn't be resolved till the end of the world.

After winning over the director Derren returned home with a victorious grin. " Nessie, would you look at this, your brother is so smart——" the rest of his words were drowned when he noticed the greenish-black that was hovering in the air. He blinked as the smile slipped off his face and then he turned to look at Nolan who has already taken quite a few steps back. " What did you think? Are we being raided? Or attacked?"

" Young miss is at home." Was the only thing Nolan said and Derren knew what he was trying to say —— with Vanessa at home, there was no way anyone would be stupid enough to attack that means. A horrifying expression dawned on his face as he clutched the back of Nolan's shirt and prepared himself to sprint faster than Bolt. "We need to get out of here——"

Just as he said that a sweet voice came from behind. " Brotherrrr~ you are here? I have baked a cake for you and Nolan. Come in and have a piece."

All the colour drained from Derren's face as he looked at the monstrous thing that his sister was calling a cake. This was a cake? Was she sure she didn't still the spawn of a banshee?it looked like it was going to jump and swallow them whole at any moment!

" Vanessa, d..did I, d..did I do something wrong?" asked Derren, he thought that when he returned home he will be welcomed with gongs and trumpets. So, why was his sister holding poison? What did he do? He was pretty sure he did a good job!

" What are you talking about?" said Vanessa as she held the cake in her hand and ushered the two to get inside. " What wrong can you even do? I baked this cake because I wanted to thank you, don't worry this time I didn't mistakenly ground the glass into it."

"Glass?? You mistakenly did what??" He turned to look at his butler who lowered his head in shame, Harrison must be embarrassed that he couldn't do that one task that he asked him to do and that was to teach Vanessa how to cook! To think that she made a cake out of glass last time, thankfully he was used to eating trash and could even digest a whole cow without burping or else he would have been dead by now!

" There you go!" As she cut out the rock-hard cake and handed a piece to each of them Derren and Nolan had the same thoughts in their head and that was —— they should have revised their wills one last time.

Though Derren felt like he was walking on the edge of the board of a ship with sharks dancing below him, he couldn't refuse it when Vanessa was looking at him with those expectant eyes. How was he supposed to tell her that plastering a rock with whipping cream could not be called baking a cake, in the end, he couldn't bring himself to say those words and raised his hand to take a bite of the abomination called 'vanilla cake.'

But then there was a loud bang and he turned to look at the source of the sound only to find Nolan on the ground with his face turning blue. "NOLAN!"

Derren and Vanessa hurried to Nolan's side as Derren carefully brought the latter in his lap while Harrison rushed to call an ambulance. Because both Derren and Vanessa grew up in the slums after their father threw their mother out together with them after Vanessa was born, they could eat anything but Nolan was a different case. " Nolan, don't worry Harrison has gone to call the hospital."

"B….Boss?" muttered Nolan as he groaned and moaned while clutching his stomach. " I...If I die, tell the world that I died because of a bullet, not a cake …it.. it will be too embarrassing…." After he finished saying this piece, Nolan fainted.

And Derren who was shocked by his assistant sudden fall shrieked in surprise. " NOLANNNNNNN!!!!"